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What's SF?
by yeukhon 9y ago
What's SF?
- ohashi 9y agoI believe Special Forces
- jghn 9y agoSpecial Forces, but I suspect they really meant Special Operations, of which SF is one example Edit: in this story the victim is SF but the two SEALs are not. All three are SpecOps
- csa 9y agoYou are correct... it was a hastily typed response.
- psergeant 9y agoFWIW this appears to be a weird American-only distinction, as “Special Forces” in the US military is a proper noun, where it’s a common noun in other anglophone militaries. That is: in English, “special forces” and “special operations” are interchangeable descriptions, but the Americans broke this by naming a group of their special operations troops as “The Special Forces”. Much like the Brits and “The Royal Navy” rather than “a royal navy”.
- socceroos 9y agoAnother analogy would be how we lost the distinction between hacker and cracker.
- dajohnson89 9y agohave we? the distinction is pretty clear in my mind.
- mwilliaams 9y agoIt's because "United States Army Special Forces" is the actual term for the personnel known as Green Berets, whereas SEALs fall under NSW (Naval Special Warfare Command) and SOCOM (Special Operations Command).
- nradov 9y agoI don't think you understand how English works.
- psergeant 9y agoGo on
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